Carotenoids and photosynthesis

H Hashimoto, C Uragami, RJ Cogdell - Carotenoids in nature …, 2016 - Springer
Carotenoids are ubiquitous and essential pigments in photosynthesis. They absorb in the
blue-green region of the solar spectrum and transfer the absorbed energy to (bacterio-) …

Ultrafast dynamics of carotenoid excited states− from solution to natural and artificial systems

T Polívka, V Sundström - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Carotenoids are, along with chlorophylls, the most abundant pigments found in nature. They
are present in most organisms including humans but can be synthesized only by plants and …

Structures of a phycobilisome in light-harvesting and photoprotected states

MA Domínguez-Martín, PV Sauer, H Kirst, M Sutter… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Phycobilisome (PBS) structures are elaborate antennae in cyanobacteria and red algae,.
These large protein complexes capture incident sunlight and transfer the energy through a …

Photosynthetic light-harvesting (antenna) complexes—structures and functions

H Lokstein, G Renger, JP Götze - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls, together with carotenoids, serve, noncovalently
bound to specific apoproteins, as principal light-harvesting and energy-transforming …

Effect of a conjugated carbonyl group on the photophysical properties of carotenoids

D Zigmantas, RG Hiller, FP Sharples… - Physical Chemistry …, 2004 - pubs.rsc.org
Effects of introducing a carbonyl group into the conjugation system of carotenoids were
studied for four naturally occurring carotenoids: peridinin, fucoxanthin, siphonaxanthin and …

Ultrafast laser spectroscopy uncovers mechanisms of light energy conversion in photosynthesis and sustainable energy materials

D Zigmantas, T Polívka, P Persson… - Chemical Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …

Carotenoid to chlorophyll energy transfer in the peridinin–chlorophyll-a–protein complex involves an intramolecular charge transfer state

D Zigmantas, RG Hiller… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
Carotenoids are, along with chlorophylls, crucial pigments involved in light-harvesting
processes in photosynthetic organisms. Details of carotenoid to chlorophyll energy transfer …

[HTML][HTML] Light harvesting complexes in chlorophyll c-containing algae

C Büchel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2020 - Elsevier
Besides the so-called 'green lineage'of eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms that include
vascular plants, a huge variety of different algal groups exist that also harvest light by means …

Understanding/unravelling carotenoid excited singlet states

H Hashimoto, C Uragami… - Journal of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Carotenoids are essential light-harvesting pigments in natural photosynthesis. They absorb
in the blue–green region of the solar spectrum and transfer the absorbed energy to (bacterio …

Quantum chemical description of absorption properties and excited‐state processes in photosynthetic systems

C König, J Neugebauer - ChemPhysChem, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The theoretical description of the initial steps in photosynthesis has gained increasing
importance over the past few years. This is caused by more and more structural data …